Francisco de Cuéllar; Armada sailor, striped of his own command; washed ashore in Sligo when the Lavia was shipwrecked with great loss of life off Streedagh Strand, Sept. 1588; escaped murderous bands on fore-shore, though badly injured; robbed of clothes and possessions, incl. religious effects taken by an Irish girl (hermossisma por todo estremo/beautiful in the extreme); made himself a covering of ferns and straw;

was sheltered by the ORourke, who was subsequently beheaded at the Tower for subsequently dragging a Queen's sherriff to his death by the heels; travelled from Donegal to Antrim; defended the MacClancy fort against English army; sent epistolary account of his experiences to a Spanish patron, Oct. 1589 - though not to King Ferdinand as Henry Sedgewick believe; MS deposited in naval archives, Madrid, and later published.

J. P. OReilly, Remarks on certain passages in Captain Cuellars narrative on his adventures in Ireland after the wreck of the Spanish Armada in 1588-89, followed by a literal translation of that narrative, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Sect. C (Dublin 1893), pp.175-217.

H. D. Sedgwick, A Letter to His Majesty King Philip II of Spain (NY 1895).

Hugh Allingham, Captain Cuellar's adventures in Connacht and Ulster, 1588 AD, to which is added an Introduction and complete translation of Captain Cuellar's narrative of the Spanish Armada, by Robert Crawford (London: Stock 1897), 70pp., ill.

Hugh Allingham & R. Crawford, ed. & trans., Captain Cuellars adventures in Connacht and Ulster: a picture of the times drawn from contemporary sources, reprinted to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the wrecking of three vessels on Streedagh Strand (Sligo 1988).

Brendan Clifford, ed., A story of the Spanish Armada by Captain Francisco de Cuellar, with additional material by various authors (Belfast 1988).